10.5287/BODLEIAN8OC7.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Photograph of William Owen sent to Mother (1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
nsJvlaZm88634
1914-08-01/1918-12-31
2011-12-05 12:31:13.679038
2011
GWA_6172_caerscan0183.jpg
Postcard
Private 3134 William William Owen, 1st Bn. Welsh Guards, was killed in action 20th September 1917, aged 41. The husband of Asneth Owen, of Pembroke House, Penygroes, Carnarvonshire, he is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery. The 1st Bn., part of the Guards Division, was taking part in the Battle of the Menin Road, third phase of the Third Battle of Ypres.